To all you gardeners....I have an oriental poppy that is gone to seed pods and the plant is now yellow. Can I trim this down now, what about the seeds, does this plant seed itself or can I remove the pods and share with others.

I think you can trim it down and share the seeds--my Mom used to have oriental poppies and she'd do that all the time. I love them, but can't get mine to bloom. Weed-whacked down one too many times by an overzealous hubby, I think. But they still come up year after year, so they don't need to reseed.

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It should be a perennial, Marty11--no reseeding necessary. Mine never produces flowers, much less seeds, but they come up every year anyway. So you should be okay sharing seeds. Or just save one of the seed pods and give the rest away.

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"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."

As long as the leaves have turned yellow it is okay to trim them (once the leaves have have died they can be of no more benefit to the roots). The roots will remain alive and the plant should come back next year.

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